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What an amazing book, completely different than anything I’ve read in a long time. The atmosphere is very Dickensian: bleak poverty, landlords taking advantage of orphans and widows, endless hardship and labor, juxtaposed by wealthy landowners and greed. There is a cholera outbreak and the city’s poor make up the majority of the casualties. An odd friendship develops between a young prostitute and a disgraced doctor in need of anatomy cadavers by which to teach his students. This makes up the basis of the story with many other minor characters rounding out the plot. And the narrator jumps in now and again to give us a broader view of things, which I thought was brilliantly done, very clever and creative.


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The Dress Lodger Sheri Holman 9780871137531 Books Reviews

I bought this book because many readers compared it to Dickens' work. There is no doubt this author writes brilliantly but her work pales in comparison to Dickens. With his works, I couldn't wait to turn the page and I longed for more when I finished. With this book, I just wanted to hurry and finish it and be done with it.
Second time through. I read it when it came out and it stayed on my brain. Terrific story.
This book was a very well written and honest description of a period in english history when cholera had everybody in a panic but no one knew what it was. It is also a period when medicine was staring to develop but ofter doctors needed to rob graves to get bodies to teach their students. The main characters were all trapped in circumstances on their class and history and very honestly pot rayed. I was hopping it would like a tragedy where the characters were able to raise above their circumstances, but it was not the authors vision. Truthfully, this is not often the case with life. I will try some of this authors other books in the future because I noticed from reading other reviews, she seems to have a very loyal following
If you love to read gory, detailed stories about disease and misery in Victorian England, this book is for you.

This book is written from the frame of reference of the victims. It has a fractured flow, jumping between various subplots that don't seem all that related until they all tie up at the end with the cholera epidemic hitting a exponential increase of victims. I found it hard to stick with it and concentrate. It is just mysterious enough to keep you reading in in lots of little bites. It took me days to get through it & I am generally a speedy reader.

It is very dark. Very explicit. There are grave robbers & body snatchers and detailed discussions of the early teachings of anatomy through human dissection.

The book centers on the lives of the poor and has a very Dickens-like atmosphere.

It is just not my type of book. But it just might be yours!
I do not know this author personally, nor was I given this book to read, gratis. I am also not prone to sympathetic reviews. Therefore, when I say this is a tremendous book, you can rest assured I mean it from the heart.

The prose is the most original and appealing I’ve come across in years. There were a few instances where it threatened to obscure the story line, but the author manages to pull it under tight rein again, admirably. The way the author describes the minutiae of different Georgian/Victorian Era industries from the perspective of the poor, who must keep it moving, filled me with disgust and left me feeling drained and hopeless, merely from the reading. There were times I had to put the book down for short periods, in order to bring myself back into my own reality and reassure myself with creature comforts.

I see most everyone else has given a summary of this book and because I consider it a vain undertaking, I will refrain. Because how could I do it with any sort of accuracy? Who would be the Protagonist? Gustine? Henry? Cholera? I have no idea. I think it’s due to the writer’s magnificent and honest portrayal of humans and our many different faces that makes even the casual character a star in their own right.

I’m glad I don’t stumble upon these types of books very often. Writing this type of review is exhausting. But to do any less would be disrespectful to this writer.

But now, I’ve run out of adjectives.

Thank you for this, Friend Writer. This is a one-of-a-kind piece of work in subject matter and story line!
Wow. By the end I was moved by the story more than I thought I would be when I started the book. Several reviewers have noted the nontraditional narrative style. I was also irritated by it at first but then just got used to it. Some parts of the story made me think of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -- how the poor were always taken advantage of in the name of scientific advancement. Cholera defined the 19th century, the narrator stated, and this story brings to life the deadly effects of a then unstoppable disease. I recommend this book to those who love historical fiction with a strong anchor in actual events.
What an amazing book, completely different than anything I’ve read in a long time. The atmosphere is very Dickensian bleak poverty, landlords taking advantage of orphans and widows, endless hardship and labor, juxtaposed by wealthy landowners and greed. There is a cholera outbreak and the city’s poor make up the majority of the casualties. An odd friendship develops between a young prostitute and a disgraced doctor in need of anatomy cadavers by which to teach his students. This makes up the basis of the story with many other minor characters rounding out the plot. And the narrator jumps in now and again to give us a broader view of things, which I thought was brilliantly done, very clever and creative.